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I have premium Mal ware bytes and Ccleaner, now im looking for the trifecta and getting a solid anti virus. Now i had norton years ago and it bogged my pc down for hours and i just didnt like it. I saw ratings for McAfee, norton and bullguard but im asking for personal opinions. So give em to me like herpes !!!!



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Your real concern should be for anti-malware, this is my choice for both Mac and Windows if needed:

 

https://www.sophos.com/en-us/products/free-tools.aspx



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Oh dont worry it is thats why i got the premium MalWare bytes



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Oh dont worry it is thats why i got the premium MalWare bytes

 

https://www.sophos.c...free-tools.aspx is free



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One of the best ones out there is Emsisoft. I have been using it for 4 years and haven't got hit with anything yet. It doesn't bog down the system and updates every hour. If your interested hit me up and I can give you a link to get it cheaper than on their site. 



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I used Kaspersky, Avira, AVG, Malwarebytes and Dr. Web. 
I found Avira and AVG rather disturbing, to be honest, yet they did their job good enough. We had Avira in one of the offices I worked in, it had its minuses, like not dealing with all the viruses I had on my USB drive but it was about 5 years ago. 
All of these antiviruses have some free tools, you can try them our first. 
If I were you, I would go for Malwarebytes or Kaspersky. The last one is installed on my PC for years already and I have no troubles with it so far. 
Btw, never heard of Emsisoft. Gonna check that out one day. 



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Check out the Virus Bulletin for the top-rated AV programs: https://www.virusbulletin.com/testing/results/latest/vb100-antimalware

 

Some of those mentioned above are in the table.

 

How each performs (and impacts) on your system will, I have found, be determined by the specs of your machine.

Some are demanding on resources so one can forget about doing anything else whilst they are updating etc.

If you choose a free solution, it is worth reading the terms and conditions especially the privacy policy.  AVG (Free)

is an example of a program that monitors your web usage (but, if you are using Windows 10 already, perhaps

you aren't that bothered... :lol: ).

 

I have favoured the paid-for version of AVG for some years as it is relatively stable and well-behaved.  It is

important, however, to disable the automatic checks for updates if one is playing games as I have found these crash

the PC in-game.  Better to schedule the update checks for when one is not playing.



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Stay away from midget porn..BEST anti virus you will find.

The best info yet! HeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeMidgetHaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaW!


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Its not the midget porn im worried about ;)



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Your real concern should be for anti-malware, this is my choice for both Mac and Windows if needed:

 

https://www.sophos.com/en-us/products/free-tools.aspx

it does look interesting .. Are you using it now?



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No BS here...

 

My dad called his computer forensics friend in the CIA and asked  him what they recommended out of all the AV's last your about this time and he recommended Zone Alarm Extreme. 

 

Zone Alarm locks a PC down big time and I hate it if you have a slow PC and a regular HD. Way to much for a slow system and with out a SSD it slows a PC down big time. With an SSD you cant hardly tell it is running on a faster system. 

For myself... Malwarebytes is all I run. I can't stand AV software slowing my crap down. Customers different story. 

 

I will check out Yacc's suggestion. 



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I used Kaspersky, Avira, AVG, Malwarebytes and Dr. Web. 

I found Avira and AVG rather disturbing, to be honest, yet they did their job good enough. We had Avira in one of the offices I worked in, it had its minuses, like not dealing with all the viruses I had on my USB drive but it was about 5 years ago. 

All of these antiviruses have some free tools, you can try them our first. 

If I were you, I would go for Malwarebytes or Kaspersky. The last one is installed on my PC for years already and I have no troubles with it so far. 

Btw, never heard of Emsisoft. Gonna check that out one day. 

 

You can try out the full version of Emsisoft for free for 30 days.



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I use Avast free version all they want is your email to register and your good for a year.

then you click renew next year. Been using it for years for free.



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Oh dont worry it is thats why i got the premium MalWare bytes

me too after years of using the free one to save my ass and remove malware time after time after time -this year I bought it.problem free with mse and malwarebytes  pro



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it does look interesting .. Are you using it now?

 

I do use it at several clients (paid-version) and occasionally to scan my Macs (free-version)



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I have premium Mal ware bytes and Ccleaner, now im looking for the trifecta and getting a solid anti virus. Now i had norton years ago and it bogged my pc down for hours and i just didnt like it. I saw ratings for McAfee, norton and bullguard but im asking for personal opinions. So give em to me like herpes !!!!

 

You already have a trifecta - your third element is Windows Defender.  That should be your primary.  Malwarebytes as a backup.  Run it weekly, or so.  CCleaner?  idk.  More of a cleaner of gunk than malware or virus protection.



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